This brings up a very depressing aspect of American history. Generations of Germans since WW2 have looked back in horror at what their parents and grandparents did, and to a significant extent they’ve grown beyond it by learning from it. I won’t say they’ve come to terms with it because what was done goes beyond any possibility of coming to terms. But they’ve documented it, memorialized it, preserved the record of it, built museums around it, all so that they may never forget what happened, so that never again.
Sets an example of what we ought to do after centuries of slavery and murder. Still struggling to get rid of Confederate monuments a century and a half after that war supposedly ended. One of our major policital parties wants to erase discussion of race from our elementary schools. Huge slice of our population want’s to pretend it never happened. Can’t face the horror. What a mess.